WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sound Bite, Logical Reasoning, Media Culture

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1808
• Professor: Debra Graham

Document Summary

Diamonds as symbols of love, happiness, feminist and status. They are taking a whole different aspect diamonds are a girls best firned . If someone purposes there is a expectations that a diamonds is going to be given to a person who is being purposed. Media re-present the world; there is no such thing as a natural image. Example: all naked women posing together is seen as normal whilst all naked man posing together is seen as unnatural. 1820s-19020s products oriented; celebratory text based for reason why . The texts gave the consumer why the consumer should by the product. 1920s-1940s selling of non-essential goods, visuals with figures and representing social values. Society at this point had to learn how to read images. 1980s-1990s there was a real shift in advisements. There are little to no text on the images. It is commercial realism, presents the worlds in ways that could be real .